Category Archives: BI Vendors

I have recently started to hear about Prism, which utilizes Column storage and this ‘cool’ just-in-time in-memory processing it has got. This weekend, I got a chance to play around and do some basic research on it. Here are my … Continue reading →

Cost was much higher purchasing driver in 2010 as compared to 2009 as per Gartner’s survey showing organizations consideration to open source or low price vendors for BI deployments. New addition to Gartner’s magic quadrant this year and such a … Continue reading →

Microstrategy specializes in enterprise BI deployment and according to latest research by Gartner has the largest average deployments in terms of number of users . Microstrategy as a company have excellent support relationship and as a product one the best … Continue reading →

IBM with the acquisition of Cognos (Jan 2008) and SPSS (July 2009) has definitely built a nice and a complete stack on BI offerings. They are on top in Gartner’s famous Magic Quadrant for completeness of vision and right below Microsoft, Oracle and Microstrategy … Continue reading →

When I first looked at Oracle website couple years ago, it was not that bad, but with all the aggressive acquisitions over last couple of years and continuous addition to their solution stack, it can get little difficult to find what all … Continue reading →

Michael Saylor, founder and CEO of Microstrategy “Turning our civilization into software driven processes” “You might not be interested in technology but technology is interested in you” “It is an exciting time, BI is coming out of back offices and … Continue reading →